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Today we have a guest-blogger appearance. Phil Brumby is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for our Runtime Solutions team and manages the technical and engineering developments for development for our graphics and user interface products. He led a web seminar a few weeks ago titled “Create Compelling User Interfaces for Embedded with Qt Framework” and received more questions than he … Read More

As part of the Mentor Embedded team I’m excited to finally share that we’re partnering with AMD Embedded to provide open-source embedded Linux development for heterogeneous and multi-core processors from AMD. Last year in September AMD shared details about its embedded product roadmap; this provided a great deal of insight into the commitment and growing investment AMD is making into embedded systems … Read More

It is no secret that of all the design steps involved in developing an embedded application, debugging is probably the most crucial and where the most amount of time is spent. Code debugging is more a learned experience than anything else. The more embedded applications you code, build and debug, the better you get at it. Newer tools may give you greater visibility but you still need to know what to … Read More

Let me start this blog with some trivia –
Which company has contributed over 10,000 changes to the official source repositories for the GNU toolchain?
No luck? Ok, maybe this will help:
This same company’s engineers hold over 50 leadership positions (maintainer, reviewer, steering committee member etc.) in the open source community!
I would not fault you for thinking of Fortune 500 high-tech names, … Read More

From time to time I am pleased to receive submissions from colleagues, who can give different perspectives on embedded software. This week, Carlos O’Donell is talking about software standards and why we should all care about them …
My name is Carlos O’Donell and I work for Mentor Embedded as part of the Sourcery CodeBench team, in addition to that I volunteer my time as a GNU C Library … Read More